But the rate dropped only one percentage point in the two years from 2013 to 2015. In fact, the total number of poor in Sub-Saharan Africa has been increasing. In 2015, more extreme poor lived in that ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

Poverty affects people around the world. Entire nations are rarely poor but people within nations are. A rich country such as the UK has many people living poverty. A country we tend to think of ...

Oxfam predicted in its new report that the world was on track to see at least five trillionaires within a decade.

Many people suffer with the consequences of extreme poverty, particularly in the developing world. Many Christians ... are more likely to have high rates of child mortality, poor life expectancy ...